While on the subject of ATMs, who else wonders why your prefered language isn't marked on your account so you don't have to make that selection at each ATM stop?
It would have to be on the card, not the account. This is because the machine doesn't actually dial in to the central computers until after you've typed in all the info (PIN, requested transaction, etc.).
Not doing what you said you were going to do is not necessarily fraud.
True, but that's not what is going on here. In this case, you are doing something you said you wouldn't do. That's very different than not doing something you said you would.
And you're right, violating a contract is not necessarily fraud. But it can be if you were deceitful in entering into the contract or in your violation of the contract.
It is fraudulent to sign a contract that says "I won't click" and then go and click anyway.
Well, 30% of the heat (apparently) does go far away.
Keep in mind, though, you wouldn't do this all in one spot.
Also, the effect of this pales in comparison to what happens when you build a lot of buildings and/or chop down a lot of trees in an area.
There are 7.8 million acres of coal mines currently under permit. This 7.8 million excludes over 2 million acres of old mines which have been reclaimed. Note that reclaimed mine land is not the same as being in pristine condition.
The 7.8 million also excludes down-stream/down-river areas which may be impacted by run-off from mine waste rock and tailings.
So, its not as good a comparison as I originally thought, but the land needs are actually pretty close in size.
Keep in mind, though, that this solar use is potentially easier on the land (and nearby land) than strip-mining is.
This thing would only need 100 square miles of land to supply all the daytime electricity needs of the U.S. That's NOTHING compared to strip mining for coal.
Transporting electricity long distances is actually very efficient. Don't know where you got your data.
Flywheel batteries (for lack of a better term) are designed to be free-floating within their housings. Its much easier to let the thing precess then try to tie it down. This doesn't work for disk drives because you need the heads in contact with the drives. For a flywheel, you don't need anything to be in contact, so you can let the axis move around as it likes. (You do energy transfers using magnetic fields.)
Regarding the energy of the spinning earth. First, any change you made to the earth's spin by energizing the fly-wheels, you would get back when you took the energy back out (minus friction of course). So you're not really affecting the total energy much.
Second, you clearly are not understanding the magnitude of energy we're talking about in the earth's rotation. If you could siphon energy from the earth's rotation, you could power the whole U.S. for 1.4 million _years_ and only change the length of a day by 1 second.
But you have to build dedicated roads for that. That works a lot better in new cities/neighborhoods. It would be hard, though, to retrofit an existing city with bus-only roads.
Also, buses have the issue that every passenger waits for the bus to slow down, stop, load, unload and get back up to speed at every stop. SkyWeb only stops at your final destination.
Gravitons (the gravitational force carrying particles) are still very much hypothetical. They are postulated merely because all other forces seem to have a particle that carries them. Certain quantum theories of gravity require them, but no one has a really good quantum theory of gravity yet anyway.
However, the fact that gravity does not act instantaneously has been observed. So there does need to be some way to propogate gravity from one location to another. There does need to be some type of wave, particle, or both transmitting gravitational information at the speed of light (or very close to that speed).
This just isn't true. Monopolies are merely companies which are single suppliers (or close to it) in their markets.
The legal/societal concern with a monopoly is not whether one exists (there are plenty of monopolies) but whether a company is misusing its monopoly position to hinder competition.
Clearly there will be some radioactive material created from irradiation of the reactor itself. Keep in mind, though, the worst stuff associated with fission is the original fuel (uranium or plutonium) and the elements they break down into (plutonium, cesium, strontium, etc.).
Here's an example, have you ever seen the pictures of engineers inspecting the inside of a Takomak reactor after a experimental run -- with no radiation suits on. You probably wouldn't be able to do that if the reactor had been running for years, but you can for one that had been running for a couple hours. You'd NEVER walk around in the reactor vessel of a fission reactor that way once it had been fueled. Even if you took the fuel right back out, and had never initiated the chain reaction.
Disadvantage:
Shared memory and I/O bandwidth. Each processor has the same bandwidth as before, but that bandwidth is used by two cores.
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Fusion reactors do not utilize a self-sustaining reaction the way fission reactors do. No possibility of meltdown.
Also, no heavy radioactive isotopes created. Heavy radioactive isotopes are the really bad stuff used/created in fission reactions. They include things like uranium, plutonium, cesium, strontium, etc. None of this stuff is created in fusion reactors.
When they implemented EZ Pass, there was a lot of concern over this so NJ officials stated they would not be using EZ Pass data to give speeding tickets. As far as I've ever heard, they have kept their word on this.
They do give speeding tickets for going through the toll plazas too quickly, though.
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Wind is not a constant phenomenon. Maybe the effect of slow wind is a net deposit of dust and the effect of a fast wind is a net removal of dust.
If the air was too thin to carry dust, how would the dust get on the solar panels?
CO2 can be liquid. But it take relatively high-pressure.
The atmospheres on both Mars and Earth are too low for CO2 to liquify. If chilled enough, it turns to a solid.
And you can't deep link.
It would have to be on the card, not the account. This is because the machine doesn't actually dial in to the central computers until after you've typed in all the info (PIN, requested transaction, etc.).
Its not RFID, so if the scanner can't see the card, it can't read it.
True, but that's not what is going on here. In this case, you are doing something you said you wouldn't do. That's very different than not doing something you said you would.
And you're right, violating a contract is not necessarily fraud. But it can be if you were deceitful in entering into the contract or in your violation of the contract.
It is fraudulent to sign a contract that says "I won't click" and then go and click anyway.
How are page views any different than clicks? Probably even easier to fake page views.
It can be illegal if the violation constitutes fraud.
Fraud: the intentional use of deceit, a trick or some dishonest means to deprive another of his/her/its money, property or a legal right.
Well, 30% of the heat (apparently) does go far away. Keep in mind, though, you wouldn't do this all in one spot. Also, the effect of this pales in comparison to what happens when you build a lot of buildings and/or chop down a lot of trees in an area.
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Well, 10,000 square miles is 6.4 million acres.
There are 7.8 million acres of coal mines currently under permit. This 7.8 million excludes over 2 million acres of old mines which have been reclaimed. Note that reclaimed mine land is not the same as being in pristine condition.
The 7.8 million also excludes down-stream/down-river areas which may be impacted by run-off from mine waste rock and tailings.
So, its not as good a comparison as I originally thought, but the land needs are actually pretty close in size.
Keep in mind, though, that this solar use is potentially easier on the land (and nearby land) than strip-mining is.
I also like not having to buy a new [whatever] every time a piece of spectrum changes hands and the new owner decides to change what its used for.
This thing would only need 100 square miles of land to supply all the daytime electricity needs of the U.S. That's NOTHING compared to strip mining for coal.
Transporting electricity long distances is actually very efficient. Don't know where you got your data.
Quite the contrary.
Flywheel batteries (for lack of a better term) are designed to be free-floating within their housings. Its much easier to let the thing precess then try to tie it down. This doesn't work for disk drives because you need the heads in contact with the drives. For a flywheel, you don't need anything to be in contact, so you can let the axis move around as it likes. (You do energy transfers using magnetic fields.)
Regarding the energy of the spinning earth. First, any change you made to the earth's spin by energizing the fly-wheels, you would get back when you took the energy back out (minus friction of course). So you're not really affecting the total energy much.
Second, you clearly are not understanding the magnitude of energy we're talking about in the earth's rotation. If you could siphon energy from the earth's rotation, you could power the whole U.S. for 1.4 million _years_ and only change the length of a day by 1 second.
But you have to build dedicated roads for that. That works a lot better in new cities/neighborhoods. It would be hard, though, to retrofit an existing city with bus-only roads.
Also, buses have the issue that every passenger waits for the bus to slow down, stop, load, unload and get back up to speed at every stop. SkyWeb only stops at your final destination.
How many Iraqi soldiers actually had internet access? Sounds like they really just got in touch with the senior guys.
Well, it was already a workout...
Now you can exercise both hands at once, though.
Thunder... thunder... thunder... thundercats HO!
Gravitons (the gravitational force carrying particles) are still very much hypothetical. They are postulated merely because all other forces seem to have a particle that carries them. Certain quantum theories of gravity require them, but no one has a really good quantum theory of gravity yet anyway. However, the fact that gravity does not act instantaneously has been observed. So there does need to be some way to propogate gravity from one location to another. There does need to be some type of wave, particle, or both transmitting gravitational information at the speed of light (or very close to that speed).
You should have signed up as an affiliate and posted the affiliate link. :)
This just isn't true. Monopolies are merely companies which are single suppliers (or close to it) in their markets.
The legal/societal concern with a monopoly is not whether one exists (there are plenty of monopolies) but whether a company is misusing its monopoly position to hinder competition.
Clearly there will be some radioactive material created from irradiation of the reactor itself. Keep in mind, though, the worst stuff associated with fission is the original fuel (uranium or plutonium) and the elements they break down into (plutonium, cesium, strontium, etc.). Here's an example, have you ever seen the pictures of engineers inspecting the inside of a Takomak reactor after a experimental run -- with no radiation suits on. You probably wouldn't be able to do that if the reactor had been running for years, but you can for one that had been running for a couple hours. You'd NEVER walk around in the reactor vessel of a fission reactor that way once it had been fueled. Even if you took the fuel right back out, and had never initiated the chain reaction.
Disadvantage: Shared memory and I/O bandwidth. Each processor has the same bandwidth as before, but that bandwidth is used by two cores.
Fusion reactors do not utilize a self-sustaining reaction the way fission reactors do. No possibility of meltdown. Also, no heavy radioactive isotopes created. Heavy radioactive isotopes are the really bad stuff used/created in fission reactions. They include things like uranium, plutonium, cesium, strontium, etc. None of this stuff is created in fusion reactors.
When they implemented EZ Pass, there was a lot of concern over this so NJ officials stated they would not be using EZ Pass data to give speeding tickets. As far as I've ever heard, they have kept their word on this. They do give speeding tickets for going through the toll plazas too quickly, though.